A car bomb (likely committed by an IS sleeper cell) exploded outside the Surgical Hospital west of the city of Idlib today, damaging the building and causing up to 5 injuries. The following video shows the immediate aftermath of the attack. The Red Crescent and Syrian Civil Defence were also at the scene.

IS claims that twelve Syrian soldiers were killed, 30 were wounded and 2 tanks and a bulldozer were destroyed in an attack yesterday by IS on two Syrian Army outposts west of Hmima near/in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria.

المتحدث_العMilitary spokesman: The law enforcement forces managed to kill 3 individuals Tkfiri and the arrest of the last suspect in the middle of Sinai as well as the destruction of a four-wheel drive vehicle and many stores containing ammunition and explosives and was able to thwart the attempt to smuggle a ton of poppy poppyسكرى :

According to Ikhbariyah television, a military source said government forces took control of Wahab, al-Fahd, Dbaysan, al-Qseer, Abu al-Qatat and Abu Qatash oil fields and several other villages in the desert area that lies in the south-west of IS' self-declared "capital", Raqqa city.

[email protected] identifies the man in the SDF execution footage as civilian Abdelhamid al-Alash from Darawshe village, somewhere in eastern Raqqa countryside and states the man was executed on the 1st of April.

A very disturbing video is circulating online showing what appears to be SDF fighters executing an unarmed man somewhere in Raqqa governorate. The overcast skies and everyone dressed for cold weather suggest the video is old but the video just recently surfaced.

A post made 3 hours ago by the Desert Hawks Major Khalid commander of the "Special Forces BMP Battalion" shows pro-Government Desert Hawk fighters posting with more severed heads of killed IS fighters in eastern Hama, Syria.